jihadist
/dʒihˈɑdˌɪst/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.96 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who is militant for their religion (or irreligion).
adj
Pertaining to the Islamic fundamentalist doctrine of jihadism, which advocates armed jihad.
Example Sentences
- "[…] only a matter of time before Christian jihadists start strapping bombs to their bodies and going off on suicide missions in the name of Jesus Christ."
- "Like Muslim jihadists, Christian jihadists such as these two are willing to sacrifice as they seek to impose their religious tyranny on others."
- "[…] with Christian jihadists wearing bandoliers, waving real weapons, and waging a literal flesh-and-blood incursion against teachers of false religions."
- "By the end of the semester, only one radical Jewish jihadist in my study group kept being a racist pig and attacking me personally in section discussions."
- "I was prepared to meet a radical atheist jihadist. Would we brawl right there in my hotel room? I half expected just that."
- "[…] and even later evolved into the Jewish jihadist who wrote the Book of Revelation."
Etymology
From jihad + -ist. Attested from the 1910s in the sense of "a mujahid".http://books.google.ch/books?id=LZ1VAAAAYAAJ&q=jihadist&dq=jihadist&hl=de&ei=CHXKTaC3NMnJsgaKj72pAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA The adjectival sense of "pertaining to the jihadist movement" is from the 1960s.http://books.google.ch/books?id=eN4_AQAAIAAJ&q=jihadist&dq=jihadist&hl=de&ei=XHXKTauaHobBswaNz_SMAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAQhttp://books.google.ch/books?id=K-VxAAAAMAAJ&q=jihadist&dq=jihadist&hl=de&ei=G3bKTaGTNtHLswaOndSUAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCwQ6AEwADgKhttp://books.google.ch/books?id=pQJyAAAAMAAJ&q=jihadist&dq=jihadist&hl=de&ei=7HXKTefaDsbDswar9-WmAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CD4Q6AEwBA.